If there is a unwritten Law of Internet Privacy, it is this: Anything you post can and will be used against you in the court of public opinion. Take Amanda Knox, the University of Washington student whose apparent involvement in the killing of British exchange student Meredith Kercher has set the media and the public on an online manhunt for every shred of Knox’s online presence, with those aspects that paint her as the circumstances do — as a misguided, dangerous, bad, bad girl — rising to the top. Forget “you have the right to remain silent.” Amanda is a child of the social Web. She may not have ever had a choice.
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It was reported this week that longtime Seattleite Feliks Banel hopes to have the North Recycling and Disposal Station renamed the “J.P. Patches City Dump” in honor of the clown who was the dump’s mayor on TV. The idea generated dozens of positive responses from P-I readers. And on Tuesday, City Council President Nick Licata had initial support for the idea, too.
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